FLOWERS OF EVIL

Kindergarten of the association Solidaritè Féminine, where the children of the fifteen girls who were helped, can spend the whole day, and so the mothers are able to work in the hammam and at the restaurant. Thanks to the programs of legal support and social health, offered by the association,they prevent the abandonment and the traffic of infants in and out hospitals. From a survey about single-mothers (dated 2009) in Morocco, 150 children a day are born outside marriage and at least 23 are abandoned. Article 446 of the jurisprudence is harsh in regards to children born out of wedlock. Even if the father chooses to legally recognize the child, he/she will be classified as “zina”, in other words, the product of fornication. If the father does not recognize his child, the child’s status as "zina" will appear on his or her birth certificate. As a further method to differentiate the child, the particle "abd" is added in front of his/her name [which is chosen by the mother from a list of potential names]. In this picture, Mohammad, 9 months, is waiting for his mother, motionless, surrounded by rag dolls. /*All names are changed to protect the true identity of the people /